We've all sat through fights where one fighter wins half the rounds and wins them clearly but for whatever reason he lets other rounds slip through his fingers and the other opponent steals the other half and the fight somehow ends up a draw. It's so annoying, isn't it? You thought he won the fight but there was no way of showing that in your scorecards. Until now - introducing the all-new ''impression point"! If your scorecard ends up a draw after 12 rounds, you can add a discretionary point to the fighter who you felt won the fight. It is not mandatory - if you genuinely feel that a draw was a fair result, there's no obligation to add the point to either fighter's scorecard. But if you do, hey presto! A clear winner can immerge. No more uncertainty - with 'impression point' those annoying split or majority draws are a thing of the past. Try 'impression point' TODAY and see the difference it makes to your judging! Coming to a fight card near you (or not).
Apologies for the mock advert in the first post (too much morning coffee). Anyway, just an idea I had to allow judges to make an overall decision in the event of a draw. Good idea? Bad idea? Thoughts?
Nah. The reason we have official judges is to safeguard against dangerous things like "favorable impressions." Math is easy. Just do the math, and leave the rest to experts at ESB Classic Forum.
'Impression points' have been done already. The old NY system was scoring on a rounds basis and was able to use 'supplemental points', but only in the event of a draw on any judges card. It was a flawed system, however, because multiple knockdowns in a round was simply scored for the fighter who scored the knockdowns. It was like he managed just one point. It was never so obvious how inaccurate this was until the first fight between Wilfredo Benitez and Bruce Curry. On a rounds basis I had Benitez the winner like the judges. But if it was a 10 point must system, I had Curry the winner by 2 points. I would always favor the 10 point must. More accurate.
I think it makes sense to note who you fought was better on top of the scoring system in fan scoring. Often these ideas can have unexpected consequences though. Someone gets a draw for being deducted a point, impression point could effectively undo the punishment I imagine it'd often end up being to who had the flashiest moment near the end of the fight too. You could just settle it by who was better the last round, in some ways if you are in a better state at the end, you've won the fight (of course you couldn't score with this alone, but it could make sense as a tie breaker), still I imagine that could still have bad consequences, like if someone got a bad cut due to an accidental head clash could lose them the fight.
Yep, good points all. Making it discretionary was my reasoning for it being a useful addition rather than compelling a judge to have to make a choice. Judging is subjective to a large degree and the 10-point must system is designed to eliminate a level of that subjectivity. But there are clearly variations in 10-9 rounds and so the overall context of the fight can end up being different to the tally of the scores at the end. It only takes a couple of marginal rounds to weight the fight in a way that is different from the overall impression of the judge watching it.
